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art Man dressed as old lady smears cream on Mona Lisa Rob Beschizza

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literature That time Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald measured dicks Thom Dunn

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france Louvre purges every mention of the Sackler opioid family after artist's protest Cory Doctorow

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